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Wow its so cold here I know Ed has us down for -0 degrees but both weather forecasts I look at have us down at -0.4 so I gather everyone is too cold to get out of bed this morning. And rightly so, I was awoken by the neighbour revving his car engine at some unearthly hour and have not been back to sleep unfortunately.
Hope we do not have to stop turning our jugs on and heat pumps off etc during this cold spell!!!!! All those electric cars are as useless as tits on bulls at the moment and I can imagine their owners are not going a long distance this morning or anytime over the weekend, as their batteries are not charged enough… such a shame for them///////
Anyway have a great day and keep safe.
Talking electric cars, I spend a lot of my day currently driving to and from around our city. The last few days the roads have been notisbly quiet.
All those electric vehicles are staying at home it seems along with their drivers. Gerat for me.
‘lectric bastards have to pay RUC now.
Might be a deterrent.
They might have range anxiety.
Having to –
-drive in the cold (draws battery)
-run a heater
-and, maybe lights
Second hand Leaf- gets 12 km 😲🤣
Tropical here in the bay. 8 degrees already.
And a very Good morning to you Lizzie. As I type this It’s 1 Degree out here in the Central Waikato, and the heater is doing it’s valiant best to warm the room. There’s no frost *Yet although that may change at sunrise,) and supposedly it’s going to be a fine day.
It would seem however that someone else has been ‘lurking’ since your made your post, and that ‘The Phantom ‘Down-ticker’ took umbrage at your comments about ‘things electric’, but despite that , have a great day, and DLTBGYD.
The bastards down ticked you too!
Why anyone would want to downtick my beautiful friend, Lizzie, is just totally incomprehensible. I just can not imagine waking up and being so unhappy with life as the anonymous down ticker appears to be.
Obviously an EV owner with buyer’s remorse.
DLTB tick YD
For me it’s a bit of a sense of pride as they could be a liarbor, teapartiy, or greens supporter I see you have one down tick as well shame on them. Have a great day Komata.
‘Jimonomics Flashback Friday | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain’
Something to amuse on a cold Saturday morning.
Given what both Robbo and the present lot have done, the similarities to NZ are quite striking.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhxu-gJFXSw&pp=ygUwcGF1bGluZSBoYW5zb24ncyBwbGVhc2UgZXhwbGFpbiAtIGxhdGVzdCBjYXJ0b29u
im sure this woman will repay taxpayers if she ever sells up///////
https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/350274280/mum-two-bought-home-while-sole-parent-benefit
It is a $tuffed fluff piece so we will never know the truth
It will be well embellished.
If family are in Levin and she bought in no name Dannevirke there will be no support system for her.
Is there any support from the father/fathers ?
2 kids in 2 years sounds like a lot of cock up !!
Did family chip in money to get her out of their hair?
Why did her job end when the second kid was 5 months old and possibly 2 under 2 . MMmmm?
If she left school at 18 – a full term secondary education -why has the last 5 years years been about breeding… but all the talk is how hard she works.
yep yep,
we just don’t know the real story
..but it will not be what the churnalists scribble.
I applaud someone who pulls themselves out of adversity;
but as we know the biased crap from NZ media would never applaud such a person;
they would put them down with a poison pen.
Try walking in other peoples shoes for a while.
I can’t understand the criticising attitude about someone who has pulled herself up and got on with a life in meaningful way.
Like someone pointed out we have no idea what her life is about and to her credit their doesn’t appear to be any gang associations.
Anyway whats wrong with Dannevirle. Its a Vking Norse town. Full of good fellas.
vikey, what part of recieving 46k per year and getting taxpayers to repay her mortage is pulling herself up and getting on with life in a meaningful way?
we’re propping her up so she can continue her existence and bludging ways.
Ok with your last line
but
We dont know what the truth is with $tuffed.
Definitely, what they print is not what the truth is.
you know that, Riiiight??
It is a crap shoot as to what the real story is
YOU don’t know.
I did say
…I applaud someone who pulls themselves out of adversity;..
Kudos to her. She’s probably saving us a packet.
If she lived anywhere else she could be paying $600-700pw to rent a flat.
She’s put her boys in a permanent home costing under $300pw
I’m delighted the taxpayer is saving the rest on accommodation supplement.
She has a plan to return to work, and her lower living costs will not tie her to a benefit.
She’ll never get rich on capital gains in a hole like Dannevirke, but I congratulate her on her forward thinking.
yea i agree itll likely be cheaper but should a winz accom supplement really be used like that?
i doubt she has real ambition to return to work, she spawned another child while unable to support herself and her 1st born so id wager that she spawns at least 1 more, possibly 2 that will conveniently be born just prior to her youngest reaching an age where she can return to work.
It says she was working when both the children were born, so not on a benefit.
You are also assuming that because she is single now she was single then.
We are not given that information, but I wonder who was caring for the babies while she ploughed ahead?
Granted, the article is from Stuff so scepticism is warranted, but on the face of it Hayley Donaldson has my admiration.
And:
Viking – play the ball, not the man.
Why. I have out upwith enough of his shit for a long time without biting back. Can’t be bothered with his garbage.
Viking darling, you rarely fail to bite back on IAASB.
It’s tedious.
Post an opposite point of view without the personal insults or just scroll on.
Do you ever get over being nasty. What a fucking sad attitude you have. That lady has raised herself up and good on her. There’s plenty of others you could criticise yet you criticise someone who has pushed to get where and what she has. How many hand ups have you ever given, because that’s what people often need.
If we are going to support single parents I’d rather it was those with a bit of gumption like this woman. She at least has a game plan to support herself & her brood rather than go through life on her back with her legs in the air waiting for another sperm donor to keep her on the DPB.
So a guarded “good on you” from me.
Yeah an OK from me too as long as she sticks to the plan. She’s obviously not afraid of work.
But receiving $46,000 from the tax payer, nice if you can get it perhaps? When will she just get a job FFS?????
Okay, to a degree one has to agree but look at a few facts that SB pointed out.
1. Second child.
2. Not one mention of a father.
3. “She had an income of about $46,000 a year” That is a direct payment by the people of New Zealand.
4. “She was able to prove to the bank her income was stable” Wow – Yes, I have every intention on remaining just as I am as far as permanent working income is concerned.
5. “With a background in motor mechanics, Donaldson supplemented her income buying and selling cars, a hobby she got approval for from Work and Income.” So quite to prepared to work a money making job – just as long as it doesn’t affect her permanent income benefit.
Whilst I, like you Viking, applaud her for what she has achieved isn’t this just the epitome of the current acceptance and an almost encouragement of people tp go onto and remain on a tax paid benefit on a long term never ending period of time.
Need to be careful with her new “hobby” can only sell 10 cars a year before you can be classed as a car dealer.
While she has done a good thing in getting a house, she put her self in that position.
I know lots of solo mums and 99% cant feel sorry for as it was their choice, how ever when they are getting benes and a house, $500 per week house costing them $50 per week, it pisses me off that we have to pay for them.
Why do all these people think they can be consultants? I would have thought you would need a few more years of work experience before you can consult.
Depends on what you are consulting on,
Look at the hundreds of labor party members on the working partys, how many of them were even coherent, all labor wanted was them to tithe. Did anyone ever as as to the makeup?
HP, i made a new comment in reply to vikey but deleted it as you covered it in a far better and bit nicer way of framing it.
What a lovely fluff piece about someone scamming the system, cant work contraception, make poor life choices, thats ok, big daddy government will look after you.
Returned to Waimate from Te Anau vis the Lindis Pass route yesterday. Of interest we were there 11 May last year and it snowed a lot heavier around all that area then than it did this year a couple of days ago in the same southerly snap that now appears to have emptied our electricity reserves. We also appear to have had more and heavier frosts here than we had during the whole of last winter.
In 2021 we travelled for 80 days around the North Island and both coasts of the upper South Island. During that time we only saw 3 police cars on the roads we were travelling – not counting any within city areas we were in. This trip we saw 3 on our way south and 5 on the trip yesterday. On both days 1 was a mufti who had stopped someone .
Not the cold snap that drained the power reserves it will be all the ev’s and ebuses that has done that. Rather than tell people not to be warm better to tell woke e wankers to walk as its better for the environment and they get to generate their own warmth at the same time
Do the new ebus have a diesel generator in the depot?
Not in Tauranga either.
3 bus co’s here with them.
How do they charge with a power cut?
Not in Nelson but cant say about the rest of the country
Jeepers during the week I went to Te Kauwhata ( had to look up the spelling}
North Island
150 km round trip
I saw heaps of cop cars incl at one stage there was one mufti each side of the road giving out a ticket. 4 km south of Mercer.
Perhaps they were scared of you HP -you might give them a bad Google Review.
There are also heaps of speed cameras.
In 2022 there was a speed camera 2 km south of the bottom of the Bombays – sth of #2 turnoff – for four months.
At least 5 speed cameras as I drove from Akl to Levin a month ago per my trusty old Cobra.
They radioed a head to warn them that you were comming!
I use my cruise control and the speed on my GPS to stay 1 under 🚗
Okay so who noticed this.?
“Grammy-winning rapper Macklemore has expressed solidarity with anti-Israel protesters and condemned Israel’s military campaign against Hamas terrorists, choosing a sellout crowd in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, to deliver his pro-Palestinian views.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/09/macklemore-performs-pro-hamas-anti-biden-song-at-new-zealand-concert/
So who has heard of him? Was it reported anywhere on MSM in New Zealand.?
“The audience reportedly raised their hands as Macklemore, real name Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, sang and multiple fans waved keffiyeh – the black and white scarf linked with anti-Israel supporters.”
Wellington, the Capital of New Zealand, full of left leaning and Greenie supporting Government workers who continue to stand against the wishes of mainstream New Zealanders. Interestingly though yesterday when coming home I noticed someone had carefully painted a large size Palestinian flag on a corrugated iron fence, could have been Mossburn I think, which quite surprised me at the time. How much support is there in New Zealand.
a washed up has been, hes a rainbow freak and half torched his career a while back. no doubt you wouldve heard his music as it was everywhere when he first rose to fame.
Rap music? Not likely S.B.
I looked through my 300 CDs and 140 Vinyls but could not find he/they/it anywhere !
So sad.
Im sure he did rap bs under that name and edm under a different name, doubt any of it was any good. Musicians and actors need to keep their opinions to themselves and just stick to doing their “trade”, being arty farty fuckwits
Esp.
Roberto De Zero
and Creepy Streepy
THE MACABRE CURSE OF THE ZOGSTERS.
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=227835
The ZOGsters can’t make up their minds?
Senate Bill Seeks To Place Campus Protesters On No-Fly List.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/senate-bill-seeks-place-campus-protesters-no-fly-list
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical
Just a reminder that tomorrow is “Mother’s Day”.
Or “Charge Whatever You Like Day” as it is known in the florists’ trade.
The Notice of Liability Delivered to Individuals at the WHO
Addressing both corporate and personal liability in wrongdoing
By your unilateral recommendation of harmful Covid strategies, The People, represented by the World Council for Health, do not believe that you acted in accordance with your constitutional obligations in Article 1. If your actions are found to be in contravention of Article 1, you will not be covered by Article 67 of the WHO Constitution that provides for the stated protection and immunity. In other words, you may be personally liable for the millions of deaths and immense suffering caused on account of your role in the unlawful authorisation of these harmful recommendations. Moreover, given the blatant conflicts of interest evident in the WHO’s activities, closely connected to commercial interests, immunity is not guaranteed when acting at the behest of those interests.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/notice-liability-individuals-who/5856803
This crackling excitement behind an antiwar protest movement hasn’t happened since the sixties, and the empire had to retreat from Vietnam with its tail between its legs and dramatically restructure western civilization before it could recover from it. And all the empire managers who worked on solving that problem are dead and gone now; the people working on it now have never had to deal with anything like this, which is why it took them by surprise. The empire managers of today have only ever encountered protests against the war machine that were either very small or short-lived and easily diverted; this one’s only gaining momentum seven months in.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/05/08/opposing-the-war-machine-is-cool-again-and-the-empires-getting-nervous/
So they get worked up about that but not the more than 2 year one that USA has been waging against Russia.
Ooops I had bedder say ‘Ukraine is defending against the Russian invasion’ or Hate Hannah might write me a sternly worded email.
The broken down sniffy creep and crook, Biden, has got his two wars in the first term. Just like GW Bush and B Hussein Obama.
Damn that Trump for not putting in the effort. The war machine was all there ready to go.
Must be Russian Collusion. Hillary told me it is so!!
Biden Unveils Latest $400M Package For Ukraine, But US Artillery Shells Already Depleted
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-unveils-latest-400m-package-ukraine-us-artillery-shells-already-depleted
Russia Launches Surprise Offensive In Kharkiv, Aims To Extend Border 10km Deep Into Ukraine
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-launches-surprise-offensive-kharkiv-aims-extend-border-10km-deep-ukraine
The question is did Russia really launch a surprise attack onto Ukrainian soil from the northern boundary.
Geo locations are not adding up for what the Ukraine has claimed. !
That $400 million dollars is a good reward.
The Bloom | Russians Begin Greatest Offensive | Dozens Of Villages Are Contested | MS For 2024.05.10
https://youtu.be/Z6KHZtb4b0Q
26 mins : 11 May 7:30 am : Military Summary :
Set to start at the why it may be a black flag attack
“The 3rd camp” though from the start will give the full context.
https://youtu.be/Z6KHZtb4b0Q?t=474
Which starts at 7 mins 54 secs
The “3 camps” finish at 13 mins 15 secs :
Still one may not be surprized that the Russians will attack from this position, in some near future time.
But this “3rd camp” shows how much fight the Ukrainians have in stopping Russia, & taking back the land. Ukraine only needs a bit more money.
As mentioned by Military Summary that even the pro-Russian bloggers are tagging that attack as only coming from Ukrainian sources.
Plus a way of boosting Ukrainian troops morale in that they have pushed the Russians back.
To aid
Russia has sheer number of troops, equipment, ammo etc..
Ukraine is has problems in lack of manpower, and equipment.
In the meantime NATO, namely USA, Britain, France. Germany play the game of support & above all to have No Negotiations.
I read that this was going to happen a few days ago. Well telegraphed I suspect but Biden and Zelinsky are too dumb to read the airwaves.
The Russians have a price and Zelinsky and a few others.
On that link there ios noted the death of fonseecca boss. Zeleinsky and haiundreds of others were tied up in that lot, including a few of ours.
https://www.rt.com/news/597316-panama-papers-ramon-fonseca/
Yup, I think this is the beginning of the end… Thankfully.
https://www.rt.com/russia/597344-ukraine-new-kharkov-offensive/
rol :— Seems that one has to read behind the lines. 🙂
…….. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed on Friday that Russian forces have launched ……..
….. development was first announced by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry …….
… claims were further amplified by Vladimir Zelensky, …
……. we knew this and calculated everything,” Zelensky said during a news conference, ….
This will help Ukrainian morale & mobilisation.
Plus it has been blogged on that Poland has already arrested a few Ukrainian able bodied men to send back, transfer to Ukrainian military corps.
Yep, soon as this conflict is decided concisely then better for all the troops.
Then will the the truth been shown about what happened, like the disregard of the Minsk accords by the NATO countries.
Will they see the propaganda of how President Zelenskyy, NATO, etc.. & how they have all been played, likes as mentioned below by Military Summary.
India had better hurry up and make England a proper colony before the middle Easterns and Africans ruin it.
They can then reclaim the stolen jewels.
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I loved the joke last night on HYS about the wrecking of the British car industry.
That was a real sledge to a mob that wrecked their own feeble ‘industry’ more than half a century ago.
But why do we still have stupid regular WOF today ….because of that daft legacy ?
unless you use long exposure on a camera you wont see jack shit just a white/silver light on the horizon. quite disappointing really if all youve ever seen is the beautiful colour photos of them.
Why are Australia and NZ leading the world in censorship.
https://twitter.com/fentasyl/status/1789046972835303677?s=46&t=NsA5l85QMcMkWL1q5R1PDA
Could it be all the lies and fear being used to control us are unravelling? Is it truth bubbling up or are we just frightened sheep.
Remember this government have massive wings that hate our inherited culture and whose sole aim is to destroy it.
All hands to the pump to re-elect Biden. Censorship is required to keep the sheep in the dark and filled with the bullshit the dems are pumping out to partisan dem voters. Word is the US Alphabet agencies requested help from Aus and NZ to smooth the way in shutting down free speech sites such as ‘X’ and Rumble so the US can ban free speech before the November election.
Brandon’s fbrain isn’t going to make it to the election!
5 eyes control plus being Western World concepts that supports Environment Social, Governance ESG with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.
That brings on the certain “privileges” to see oppression, colonialist, feminism, genderism, etc..
More isolated, easier to control, with the traitors in our midst like Ardern in with the sell out of Britain by PM Tony Blair.
Many WEF connections, including traitorous influencers.
Lack of a constitution like how the USA one, that though challenged, has stood the test of time.
Probably a dodgy list. No Canada. No UK on it. Sus.
A head’s-up for the South Islanders.
…..seen as far north as Nelson this [Saturday] morning ….
……. [Ranfurly] iPhone, Dickson said a 10-second exposure was required. ….
This morning, Dickson used a three-second exposure to capture the light show……
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/05/11/awe-inspiring-aurorae-amaze-over-south-island-more-expected/
I’ve seen the Green Flash. Does that count? Anyone else seen it?
I’ve only seen a white flash!
Yep, at exactly dusk as the sun dipped below the horizon, at Musket Cove, Fiji.
Seen it a couple of times, magnificent sight
wildfire saggy, used to see it often when i was a paper boy in my early teens. thought i was halucinating until i found out what it was a few months after i first saw it.
Yeah I’d heard about it but thought it was bs until I saw it.
Reading this I think the Stormy Daniels case is going to implode….
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/we-are-so-innocent-top-5-moments-trump-trial-mistrial-denials-stormy-daniels-testimony?lid=3sifpb0kmkhh
Farrar is getting his rear end handed to him on X over his stupid comment on Winston’s ” Fair Access to Bathroom Bill”.
This is just one on many bits to the thread –as you can see I’m getting it on Telegram.
https://t.me/thewhiterosenz/197700/267794
IMPRESSIVE!
One for the boys or horse enthusiasts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g2EqHpm7eQ8
short
Sorry WG you know who put me off horses.
Look at the next one about biden. He is a space cadet.
What’s there not to like?
Confident. Athletic. No rolls of fat & blubber. 100% chicky babe!
The (Zionist controlled) mainstream media is ramping up the fear of bird flu. It’s saying that more avian influenza cases in humans are likely to occur. The “highly contagious” bird flu strain is, (due to false testing), infecting mammals all over the U.S., and it is probably only a matter of time before humans can transmit the virus to each other.
Mail-in ballots needed //
Rule of Nine, Armageddon & Megiddo.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/rule-of-nine-armageddon-megiddo/
Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor, tried to rebuild the Third Temple. Syrian, Roman, Jewish and Christian historians record similarly strange events at the attempt. Flames, madness, earthquakes. No temple was built, Julian died soon after from illness, quite young. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
A cut and paste of a post on BFD
“This has got to stop, now. Six months after the election and the DIA still has 427 people on the payroll doing 3 waters stuff in the office. They cannot be serious, sack the lot of them today and get them to clean out their desks Monday. Unbelievable. ”
Even if they are on contracts, pay them off or put them into alternative work —labourers to help the contractors fix the leaking water pipe leaks in Wellington would be a good start. At least it would piss them off quickly and they would take off, making paying them out of their contracts unnecessary.
Thought I would share this interview Doc Malik with Andrew Bridgen. Very long but I thought worthwhile. I think most if what was covered relating to Parliament, judiciary and Covid would be similar in Most western countries.
I have raked up all the leaves, made soup ,while listening
https://open.substack.com/pub/docmalik/p/172-andrew-bridgen-mp
This has probably been linked before but it is worth repeating. Reading it (and watching Shane Jones give it to the Opposition in Parliament) makes me really pleased I voted NZF in the last election.
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/05/winston-peters-on-remarks-by-maori.html
Every narrative served up by the US fascist Intel blob goes annoyingly stale and impotent. Everybody understands they want to “defend our democracy” by cancelling your freedom of speech, pounding you into bankruptcy, and stealing whatever remains of your stuff.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/carnival-rides
So wet tickets are still available in NZ courts.
A getaway driver found with jewellery stuffed in her bra, price tags still attached, in the immediate aftermath of a violent $250,000 smash-and-grab has been sentenced to home detention.
Papakura resident Marcieanne Nimot, 37, was by far the oldest of the five alleged offenders – the others all teens, two of whom were minors – during the November 2022 heist, which was caught on video.
Defence lawyer Steven Lack that despite Nimot’s age she was the least culpable of the group, having known that a theft was about to take place at Ellerslie Jewellers and Engravers, but not realising the damage and violence that was about to occur. Unlike the others, she is not alleged to have gone into the jewellery store or confronted bystanders.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/getaway-driver-marcieanne-nimot-jailed-for-250k-ellerslie-auckland-jewellery-store-heist/IVCOUWEMCZET3IMJ2WKPV7ACS4/
No wonder they keep doing these things. 6 years in the can would start to sort the problem.
Want a cool evening?
An aurora australis danced across Aotearoa’s skies this morning to the delight of photographers nationwide.
Strong geomagnetic activity combined with cloudless skies made for perfect viewing of the cosmic event, which is difficult to see with the naked eye but is enhanced when viewed through cameras.
MetService meteorologist Clare O’Connor said the event was an uncommon sight for New Zealanders, but more so for those in the far north.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/stunning-aurora-lights-up-nz-skies-plus-the-best-place-to-catch-it-tonight/JLTO23QIRVG2JBQUPXRMGRFZYA/
So digital cameras make average looking solar flares look cool. Sounds like we all being conditioned to pray to the digital gods
Mentioned in the above thread.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-20/#comment-396233
…… is difficult to see with the naked eye but is enhanced when viewed through cameras. ….
…… to see them from Northland, that’s very uncommon.” …..
….. The aurora australis above Blockhouse Bay, Auckland, at 6am on May 11 ……
……… The aurora australis above Blockhouse Bay, Auckland, at 6am on May 11 ….
….. an unobstructed view where you can see southward – …… …. ideally you want to leave the city lights behind you.” ….
So time elapse on cameras really do the great pictures of what your eye may only give a hint of.
Still good to be aware of and see what you can see for the sake of novelty.
Stunning Northern Lights on the Detroit River tonight! As seen from our M/V Mark W. Barker
Often seen up at the great Lakes.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=848543460635046&set=pcb.848543513968374
Posted 3.30pm today.which is 11.32 pm up there approx. so an evening shot.
More from up there.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=289899904174829&set=a.184031581428329
Well if the adults aren’t going to, then their kids will. Love it.
Brave girl makes woke school board PANIC with genius stunt: “This is America!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzB0b01WJDY&list=TLPQMTEwNTIwMjRLWXdBsTfZqw&index=2&ab_channel=CaughtInProvidence
New Zealand transport
8 May 2024
Bulk of earthworks complete for Manawatū – Hawke’s Bay highway
8:17 pm on 8 May 2024
The major earthworks are finished and the pavement will soon be laid on a vital transport link between Manawatū and Hawke’s Bay, scheduled to open in about a year.
It is seven years since the old State Highway 3 through the Manawatū Gorge closed due to slips, sending traffic instead to winding, narrow alternative routes.
The $620 million highway springing up in its place has changed the face of lower reaches of the Ruahine Range as it climbs over the hills and snakes through wind turbines between Ashhurst, on the Palmerston North side, and Woodville.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516329/bulk-of-earthworks-complete-for-manawatu-hawke-s-bay-highway?
……”It is seven years since the old State Highway 3 through the Manawatū Gorge closed due to slips, sending traffic instead to winding, narrow alternative routes.’…….
Seven long years of climbing over the Saddle Road on the odd occasions that it’s not closed for makeshift, shoddy repairs. Seven long years of waiting while the bumbling fools who designed the new road buggered around. Seven long years while the construction firm led an orgy of gross masturbation instead of building the bloody thing. Seven long years to create just 11.5 kilometres of road in average NZ terrain.
Seven more months before they start on their excuses of why it won’t be completed on time.
Hooray, fuck.
Christ you are a whinger.
Of course in your day it would have been done in no time. Just like the old road that was made for the 10 tonners you used to drive. and done with poorly paid labourers.
Like most of our old roads, the truckers fucked them by wanting bigger and better trucks. Soon be 60 tonnes and that requires a lot more pavement construction than your old bangers. Anyway truckers have never paid their share for the road damage.
The old one was built on an earthquake fault anyway.
Try crying somewhere else if you want smpathy.
VK
..Christ you are a whinger…
No, He is not Christ
He is a very naughty boy!!!
You do realise that its you the consumer that wont pay for the truck damage . Truckers just live on a margin.
Christ you are a whinger.
Don’t forget the pissup with nosh for the local tribe at our expense!
In the 18 years I was driving our GCWs ranged from 27 to 32 tons. That was with a three axle truck & two axle trailer. (18 tyres)
Nowadays 44 ton is common but that is usually spread over nine axles (32 tyres)
Actually most grain trucks are now 48 to 52
There’s no shortage of “high efficiency” rigs but bridge weights keep them off quite a few Wairarapa rural roads.
pffft, who gives a fuck about bridge weights, truck weights and rules just load the bastards up and drive.
I seem to remember that you spend most of your time hauling metal short distance out of a river. Same as what I do when I put a few days in for my son’s firm. You’d be bloody unlucky to get pulled up & weighed.
But if you’re moving grain or logs or anything that’s put over the scales & the police reckon it’s time to do you over they’ll retrieve every weighbridge docket that’s ever been written out for that truck, find out where you were carting from/to & start building a case. Weights over bridges, clues to log book infringements & obviously comparing your tare/gross RUC weights with the maximum on your loading cert.
Gets expensive & put one of the local boys with about fifteen trucks out of business a while back.
mean aurora at the mo, mate in nelson can see it good too so im guessing visible anywhere in the south island and probs good chunk of the north
Can see amazing red in the sky here in HB.
Certainly enhanced by camera and have some shots.
just using my ph camera here it was red green and purple.
Flash flats you have funded.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/blessing-sees-20-new-rotorua-kainga-ora-apartments-on-lake-rd/XII4OIRFBZFVJDJBCDN5QCN3IE/?
“Too many homeless families in Rotorua are being forced to make their car their home, parents bedding down in the front seat while their tamariki sleep in the back.”
Perhaps that will stop them rooting and increasing their benefit income. The neighbours didn’t appear that excited about it.
bit flasher then the single mums shack we’re also funding.
They are mostly single mums shacks. 2 Bedroom and 3 bedroom. Not much playroom.